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...addition to the colorful costumes gracing campus last weekend for Halloween were the artistic trappings of another holiday: El Dia de los Muertos
Festivities for Dia de los Muertos took place at the Center for the Study of World Religions (CSWR) this past week. There was an altar dedication ceremony featuring a room full of decorations and community members in the CSWR common room Friday...
PERFORMANCE | Dia de los Muertos: The Day of the Dead
...Congress (I.N.C.). Bremer wanted to make an example of the I.N.C. and prove that no political party is above the law, but the search was stymied: according to a senior U.S. official, the police couldn't get into the I.N.C. offices the first time they went. Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA) officials who were working in a Pentagon-funded intelligence program attached to Chalabi's group stopped the officers at the door, arguing that the sensitive intelligence inside needed to be protected. But on May 13, after the Administration decided to cut off the $335,000 monthly subsidy to the I.N.C...
...intensified FBI and CIA focus on the I.N.C.'s ties to Tehran have now put Chalabi himself under the microscope. "He's been suspected of being an Iranian asset for a long, long time," says Patrick Lang, a former DIA official. Since the beginning of the occupation, the I.N.C. has worked closely with the DIA and the U.S. military in Baghdad, feeding intelligence to the U.S. on the whereabouts of top Baathists and the movements of insurgent cells. But that relationship also gave Chalabi and his aides extraordinary access to members of the U.S. intelligence community. At least two DIA...